Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal life as well as his public decisions, Volcker is a slow man with a buck. Instead of flying a regularly scheduled airline and getting a first-class seat so he can stretch his long legs, Volcker doggedly queues up to ride the cramped shuttle flight between Washington and New York, where his wife, who suffers from arthritis, still lives. A month ago, when the dollar was under attack, Volcker found himself marooned for six hours at New York's La Guardia Airport waiting for a place on the shuttle. Says one aide with a grin: "Perhaps...
...Iowa history was gathering. By the time the papal Mass began on a 180-acre pasture shortly after 3 p.m., the throng totaled 350,000, more than double the 150,000 that descended on Iowa in 1959 for a glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev. Police cordoned off a 16-mile stretch of Interstate 80 and Interstate 35 and used it as a parking lot for buses that rolled in from Kansas, the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska. The crowd included many teenagers in jeans and backpacks. Seventy-five high school students from Independence, Iowa, walked 130 miles...
...needed the space program; a society that does not stretch its horizons will soon shrink them. The argument that we must solve all our problems on earth before venturing beyond our planet will confine us for eternity. The world will never be without problems; they will become an obsession rather than a challenge unless mankind constantly expands its vision. Columbus would never have discovered America if 15th century Europe had applied the slogan that it needed first to solve its own problems; paradoxically, these problems would have become insoluble and Europe would have suffocated in its own perplexities...
About 500 yards before the finish, the otherwise flat course gradually slants downwards for 300 yards until it steepens precipitously for a 30-yard stretch which separate the boys from the mountain goats...
...heart and soul of the team. It was he who kept the younger members of the team loose all year with his clubhouse clowning. It was he who rapped out 32 home runs in just over 400 at bats and got the key hits down the stretch. And it was he who hit the game-winning, three-run homer Tuesday night that gave the Pirates a 5-2 win in the first game of the series...